With the ruling of the Council of Grand Justices that not allowing same-sex couples to marry is unconstitutional, marriage equality has taken a dramatic step forward in Taiwan. But this is not the end of the fight and this is important to remember. We might review today's events...
Despite the rain, between fifty and eighty people turned out yesterday at the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial for a demonstration calling for arrested Taiwanese human rights advocate Lee Ming-Che’s release...
With the one year anniversary of Tsai Ing-Wen’s inauguration, we might take the opportunity to reflect on the successes and failures of the Tsai administration to date...
Just over twenty days after the arrest and detention of Taiwanese human rights NGO worker Lee Ming-Che by Chinese authorities, little has been clarified regarding his abduction. On April 10th, Lee Ming-Che’s wife, Lee Ching-Yu, attempted to fly to China in order to search for her husband, but did not even make it out of Taiwan...
The arrest and detention in China of Lee Ming-Che, a former staffer in DPP headquarters and human rights advocate, has provoked shock and worry in Taiwan...
Due to increasing tensions between both parties, the NPP and DPP may be set for a permanent split in the near future, as accentuated by the issue of a recall vote facing NPP chair Huang Kuo-Chang...
The possibility of conflict breaking out between Taiwanese youth activists and the DPP seems quite likely in the near future, with discussion of an oversight bill for cross-strait trade deals scheduled for late next week. But although the passage of such a bill was one of the significant demands of the Sunflower Movement, the DPP has stalled and even reversed course multiple times on the issue....
